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The son of a slave brutalized by a millionaire Long Island couple was told he’d have to pay $4,500 to get his mom home – or she could be killed, according to his statements read in court yesterday.

Leo Dwinanto, son of the enslaved “Samirah,” a servant to Varsha “Cruella” Sabhnani, said when he pressed the depraved mistress’ mother to just let his beloved mom return to Indonesia, she warned him: “Don’t ask too much. I can kill your mother.”

His mom had written him last year, saying that she was being abused by Sabhnani and pleaded for help.

“She was being beaten by [her] employer for making mistakes and forced to take repeated showers and eat hot chili peppers,” Dwinanto said in the statement read by prosecutor Mark Lesko in Central Islip federal court.

The son said that after Sabhnani, 45, and her husband, Mahender, 51, were arrested earlier this month on abuse and assault charges, Varsha’s mother offered him $28,000 if the victim would leave the United States and not cooperate with the prosecution.

“I am aware that Joti [the suspect’s mother] is rich and powerful and I am fearful for my own safety and that of my family,” Dwinanto said.

Varsha Sabhnani’s lawyer, Charles Ross, said the written statement was not admissible because it was not a sworn statement.

Despite the horrific charges of “inhumane” brutality against their servants, Judge Thomas Platt showed mercy to the Sabhnanis, ruling they can await trial in their luxurious estate.

He ordered the unusual home jailing arrangement, which includes a $3.5 million cash bail and an agreement that the couple pay for their own 24-hour surveillance.

The Sabhnanis run their international perfume business out of their Muttontown mansion, which features an in-ground lagoon pool with waterfall and built-in stainless steel barbecue area.

Once details are worked out, federal agents will monitor the slavery and torture suspects with phone and computer taps, and electronic ankle bracelets.

The couple will have to foot the bill for taps on their phones and perhaps on their computer. Both may be recorded day and night inside their posh prison, the judge said.

“The phones will be tapped . . . and 24-hour surveillance and electronic monitoring, paid for by them,” Platt said.

When the judge ordered the defense and prosecution to work out the details of the home imprisonment, Varsha Sabhnani embraced her lawyers and turned to her tearful daughter, Pooja, 22, in the third row of the courtroom and made a hugging motion.

Outside court, Ross said he was “very pleased with the judge’s decision today.”